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drakaal

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    Jump to 57.10 However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread…

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    Vikram Chandra makes a lot of great points. He definitely is not a "hack first" kind of guy. I am of the opinion you build, then you re-build to be supportable, then you rebuild to…

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    The main thing is this ""We hold that when employees must use their personal cell phones for work-related calls, Labor Code section 2802 requires the employer to reimburse them. Wh…

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    The author takes the analogy beyond the logical conclusion. The saying is simply meant to say "there are things that you can't make happen faster than one person can do them". Ther…

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    May not, not does not. Correlation and causation can be implied if you have a control. Or if you can rule out external factors. Saying it does not is not accurate. The parrot wakes…

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    RPG has a significantly lower install base, and I would say it is mostly dead.

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    There is still great pay if you are an AS/400 guru. About 3 years ago I interviewed for a job where I would be maintaining code which was running on an AS/400 running in System 36 …

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    Comment #8100109

    OR not AND? Man I guess if I have to choose I'll choose to use it as a key, and pick my room via my laptop. Now if you could use the smartphone to do both, You might be able to cho…

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    Baidu will have to go from copy cat to innovator to make this work. Right now Baidu is missing a differentiatior that shows how it is better. Unlike T-Shirts that you can find a ma…

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    Interesting read, especially since today you might be called a "towel head". I find in my day to day interactions that these days Blacks are less discriminated against than many ot…

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    Lasers work well for Projectors in terms of brightness, and Size. There are some downsides though since you don't get the same viewing angle that you do with standard projection. T…

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    Google doesn't play that way. It revels in demoralizing as a means of encouraging others to step of their game. This is not Microsoft that got rid of their Peer Review system to ma…

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    Having worked in a Hebrew School I get that Nimrod was a hero, but in most of the world Nimrod is an insult. While "rust" is typically not a positive thing, it does imply 'aged' wh…

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    The author doesn't seem to say anything accurate. This isn't going to be 5.7. My understanding is that since there is something that is not this that is 6.x and that since this wou…

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    Thanks for the info, I don't do much Apple. I shared because I think it is worth hearing the claims even if I don't share the author's view.

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    "But even if Swift remains an Apple-only thing, it’s impact could be greater than any other language that has sprung up in recent years, and it may achieve mass adoption faster tha…

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    This is all to common. I am currently in a not an entirely dissimilar situation. What I have learned from it I would tell anyone working at a Startup. When your grant comes due mak…

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    I agree, I was trying to keep the math simple, and give some play for bigger peaks. An ad network is another great example of where this would be tiny numbers. And with Ads more th…